The rapid expansion of data volumes in modern applications has intensified the need for efficient methods of storing and retrieving information. Contemporary research in data compression focuses on ...

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Alireza Doostan is leading a major effort for real-time data compression for supercomputer research. A professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the ...

Efficient data compression and transmission are crucial in space missions due to restricted resources, such as bandwidth and storage capacity. This requires efficient data-compression methods that ...

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Facebook is open sourcing a new compression algorithm called Zstandard that aims to replace the common technology behind the Zip file format. The most common algorithm behind the Zip file format is ...

A few weeks ago, I was invited to visit the New York City office of XLABS, a group that claims to have achieved 99% compression for videos being streamed over the Internet. If the claim is valid, its ...